Loving You Is My Passion

Loving you is my passion. Is it yours? Loving me ?
Can I trust when the going gets rough, you don't get going?
Even if it sounds crazy, I don't want to let you go.
But you seem to be getting lost in that storm outside.
Come back to me, it's stormy out and I'm worried.
If you can't find me, I'll go to you.
I am standing right here in bright colours, I see you in you black.
As you spin in circles, you look so frightened.
I step closer, and closer.
You make every kind of silence, and I'm screaming.
Even if you don't hear me, I'm screaming for you.
You just keep standing there, in the cold snow.
I walk around you, and I'm baffled.
I keep trying to get you to look at me.
But you are somewhere else entirely.
Where are you?
Loving you is my passion.
But I'm not alive if I wait forever

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Editor’s Note

The number one question our editors receive is—what do the editors and judges look for when judging the contest? The number one answer we give is creativity. Unlike prose, writing composed in everyday language, poetry is considered a creative art and requires a different type of effort and a certain level of depth. Of the thousands of poems entered in each contest, the ones that catch our judges’ eyes are the ones that remove us, even just slightly, from the scope of everyday life by using language that is interesting, specific, vivid, obscure, compelling, figurative, and so on. Oftentimes, poems are pulled aside for a second look based simply on certain words that intrigued the reader. So first and foremost, be sure your poetry is written using creative language. Take general ideas and make them personal. In his infamous book De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, W. D. Snodgrass imparts, “We cannot honestly discuss or represent our lives, any more than our poems, without using ideational language.”